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In this classic text, Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues.

Kant conceives his investigation as a work of foundational ethics-one that clears the ground for future research by explaining the core concepts and principles of moral theory and showing that they are normative for rational agents. Kant conceives his investigation as a work... Read Full Overview

T]he present groundwork is nothing more than the identification and vindication of the supreme principle of morality.'

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The finest single-volume introduction to Kant's ethics available in English. --PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, on the H. J. Paton translation

Considered one of the most profound, influential, and important works of world philosophy, Groundwork of the Metaphysic... Read Full Overview

Immanuel Kant: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2016, 4. Auflage

Vollst ndiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

As my concern here is with moral philosophy, I limit the question suggested to this: Whether it is not of the utmost necessity to construct a pure thing which is only empirical and which belongs to anthropology? for that such a philosophy must be possible is evident from the... Read Full Overview

La Fundamentaci n de la metaf sica de las costumbres tambi n conocido como los Fundamentos de la metaf sicas de la moral, es el primero de los trabajos maduros de Immanuel Kant en la filosof a de la moral y sigue siendo uno de los m s influyentes en su campo. Publicado en 1785,... Read Full Overview

Esta obra de Kant consta de un Pr logo y de tres cap tulos. En el pr logo comienza diciendo Kant que la filosof a o conocimiento racional puede ser de dos tipos: material (si considera alg n objeto, como por ejemplo la f sica que considera la naturaleza, y la tica que considera... Read Full Overview